Underneath the feeder black juncos write hieroglyphics in the snow. Two cardinals arrive In a flash of red. They add

Took the wife to a pancake house the other day. National franchise good food

Melanie is from a small town and finds a job in a big city and meets Bill, the man she wants… marry so she calls Alice, her sist… older and married, for advice.

Dreams I can’t remember cause a conflagration fire hoses can’t put out. Dreams I can recall arrive in technicolor.

Spider in the sink this early autumn morning swirls in a whirlpool Donal Mahoney

Red, yellow, brown work well together in a portrait of society. Add black, no problem. But if we remove the red,

Through the window I see the sun fire up for the last time today. There are jays in the trees near the meadow,

When Bill goes home to the church of his youth he finds things are different. They don’t sing “Amazing Grace” the way they did when he was

There are poems everywhere but you have to find them, a teacher told my class long ago. I was a kid sitting at a desk, cowlicks sprouting from my scalp,

If I hadn’t died, I’d still be bouncing along in that Greyhound bus through the mountains swigging a Coke.

Unable to sleep Bill watches preachers on TV after midnight. The preachers warn the Saved Satan is coming to get them. Bill wonders why preachers do this…

Covey of nuns without benefit of wimple graciously attired sport coat, turtleneck, skirt scurry through the airport

When Bill was a lad his parents preached that Scripture was the truth. Decades later now Bill still believes that.

Magnificent animal Harambe, the Silverback gorilla killed at t… Lovely child, the three-year-old w… jumped in Harambe’s den. The mother took her son to the zoo